Tuesday, June 24, 2025

[DMANET] [WINE 2025] Call for Papers: The 21st Conference on Web and Internet Economics

The submission server is open for the 21st Conference on Web and Internet Economics<https://wine2025.cs.rutgers.edu/> (WINE 2025) (https://wine2025.hotcrp.com/). The submission deadline is July 3, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth). WINE 2025 will take place at Rutgers University, USA, during December 8–11, 2025.

This year, WINE introduces several new initiatives:

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Rebuttal phase: The review process will include a rebuttal phase in late August, giving authors the opportunity to address questions and concerns raised by the Program Committee. This approach, adopted by related conferences such as EC and major AI venues, aims to improve the overall quality of the review process.
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Outstanding Paper Awards: In recognition of the growing number of high-quality submissions to WINE in recent years, besides the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award, 3 to 5 additional papers will be selected for Outstanding Paper Awards, representing roughly the top 10% of accepted papers.
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Simultaneous submissions at FOCS: Authors with submissions under review at FOCS 2025 may simultaneously submit the same work to WINE 2025. However, if a submission is accepted to FOCS 2025, the authors must promptly withdraw the corresponding submission from WINE 2025.


Additional details about the Call for Papers are provided below for your reference.

We welcome submissions in the area of Web and Internet Economics, including but not limited to the following topics:

* Auctions and pricing
* Behavioral economics and behavioral modeling
* Blockchains and their applications
* Computational advertising
* Computational aspects of equilibria
* Computational social choice
* Coalitions, coordination, and collective action
* Decision theory
* Econometrics, ML and Data Science
* Economic and strategic aspects of machine learning models
* Fair division
* Information design including contest and contract design
* Information elicitation
* Learning in games and markets
* Market design
* Matching markets
* Mechanism design
* Network games
* Online platforms and applications
* Privacy, fairness, and security
* Revenue management
* Social networks

The full call for papers can be found at https://wine2025.cs.rutgers.edu/#call-for-papers.


Best regards,
The WINE 2025 Organizing Committee

General Chairs:
Arpita Biswas (Rutgers University)
Kangning Wang (Rutgers University)

Program Committee Chairs:
Vittorio Bilò (University of Salento)
Yang Cai (Yale University)
Zhiyi Huang (University of Hong Kong)

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[DMANET] [Deadline Extension & Final CFP] ATMOS 2025 - 25th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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25th Symposium on ALGORITHMIC APPROACHES FOR TRANSPORTATION MODELLING,
OPTIMIZATION, AND SYSTEMS (ATMOS 2025)

September 18-19, 2025, Warsaw, Poland

Conference website: https://algo-conference.org/2025/atmos/
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atmos2025

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The 25th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling,
Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2025) will be part of ALGO 2025, which
will take place at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw
in Warsaw, Poland. ATMOS is scheduled on 18-19 September 2025.

Since 2000, ATMOS brings together researchers and practitioners who are
interested in all aspects of algorithmic methods and models for transport
optimization. The symposium provides a forum for the exchange and
dissemination of new ideas and techniques. The aim of making transportation
better gives rise to very complex and large-scale optimization problems
requiring innovative solution techniques and ideas from algorithms,
mathematical optimization, theoretical computer science, and operations
research.

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INVITED SPEAKER
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Speaker: Marjan van den Akker, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Title: A glimpse into OR for airline operations
       and why this is (not?) public transportation

Abstract: In this talk, we first consider optimization problems in airline
operations based on research done in collaboration with KLM Royal Dutch
Airlines.  Airline operations are prone to delays and disruptions, due to
tight schedules and dependence on various resources. Since the COVID
pandemic resource shortages have made the situation worse. In case of
disruptions, schedules need to be adjusted in such a way that overall costs
as well as impact on passengers are minimized, ideally in near real-time
for practical deployment.  Since schedules depend on several resources, we
take an integrated viewpoint. We will discuss some problems, such as
integrated tail and crew recovery, where we will show that our integrated
algorithm outperforms a sequential approach.

Then we move to a more general discussion. Within the operations research
community, aviation and public transportation are often treated as distinct
areas, with separate conference tracks and even dedicated conferences. This
separation suggests that aviation is not considered a form of public
transportation. We will challenge this assumption by exploring both
similarities and differences in optimization problems in aviation,
railways, and public bus transportation.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline:       July 6, 2025 (AoE) (previously June 30)
Notification to authors:   August 5, 2025
Camera ready submission:   August 24, 2025
Symposium:                 September 18-19, 2025

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TOPICS
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The symposium welcomes but is not limited to papers addressing the
following topics:


- Congestion Modelling and Reduction
- Crew and Duty Scheduling
- Demand Forecasting
- Delay Management
- Design of Pricing Systems
- Electromobility
- Infrastructure Planning
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Models for User Behaviour
- Line Planning
- Mobile Applications for Transport
- Mobility-as-a-Service
- Multi-modal Transport Optimization
- Routing and Platform Assignment
- Route Planning in Road and Public Transit Networks
- Rostering
- Timetable Generation
- Tourist Tour Planning
- Traffic Guidance
- Vehicle Routing
- Vehicle Scheduling

The symposium welcomes but is not limited to papers applying and advancing
the following techniques: Algorithmic Game Theory, Approximation Algorithms,
Combinatorial Optimization, Graph and Network Algorithms, Heuristics and
Meta-heuristics, Mathematical Programming, Methods for the Integration of
Planning Stages, Online and Real-time Algorithms, Simulation Tools,
Stochastic and Robust Optimization.

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SUBMISSIONS
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Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original
unpublished research in the topics related to the symposium. Simultaneous
submission to other journals or conferences with published proceedings is
not allowed. By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that, in case of
acceptance, at least one of the authors must register at ALGO/ATMOS 2025,
attend the conference on-site, and present the paper.

Submissions must be in the form of a single PDF file prepared according to
the author instructions
(https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publishing/series/details/oasics)
and using the LaTeX OASIcs style file and must be submitted electronically
via the EasyChair submission system
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atmos2025).

ATMOS 2025 accepts two types of submissions, both of which will be reviewed
with the same quality standards by the Program Committee.

(a) Regular paper submissions: A regular paper submission should clearly
motivate the importance of the problem being addressed, discuss prior work
and its relationship to the paper, explicitly and precisely state its key
contributions, and outline the key technical ideas and methods used to
achieve the main results.  A regular paper submission should consist of
a main body plus an optional and clearly marked appendix. The target length
for the main body (excluding the bibliography, the front page(s) (authors,
affiliation, keywords, abstract, ...)) is 12-15 pages. The total paper,
including the bibliography, the front page(s) (authors, affiliation,
keywords, abstract, ...) and the optional appendix, may not exceed 20 pages.
Authors should include all necessary details in their submission so that the
Program Committee can judge the correctness, importance and originality of
their work. Any material (e.g., proofs or experimental results) omitted
(from the main part of 15 pages) due to space limitations can be put into
the optional appendix, which will be read at the Program Committee's
discretion. Regular papers will be allotted up to 20 pages in the
proceedings.

(b) Short paper submissions: A short paper submission may present
preliminary
results or work-in-progress on a specific topic. Authors should clearly
motivate the importance of the problem being addressed, discuss prior work
and its relationship to the paper, explicitly and precisely state the
paper's key contributions, and outline the key technical ideas and methods
used to achieve the main claims. A short paper submission should have at
least 4 and at most 6 pages. Authors should provide sufficient details in
their submission so that the Program Committee can judge the correctness,
importance and originality of their work. Short papers will be allotted up
to 6 pages in the proceedings.

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PROCEEDINGS
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The proceedings will be published on the Dagstuhl Open Access Series
in Informatics (OASIcs) publication service.

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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- Moritz Baum, Apple, Switzerland
- Valentina Cacchiani, University of Bologna, Italy
- David Coudert, INRIA, France
- Twan Dollevoet, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Mattia D'Emidio, University of L'Aquila, Italy
- Lukas Graf, University of Passau, Germany
- Loïc Hélouët, INRIA Rennes, France
- Richard Lusby, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Gabor Maroti, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Matus Mihalak, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Federico Perea, University de Seville, Spain
- Léa Ricard, EPFL, Switzerland
- Jonas Sauer (co-chair), University of Bonn, Germany
- Philine Schiewe, Aalto University, Finland
- Christiane Schmidt, Linköping University, Sweden
- Marie Schmidt (co-chair), University of Würzburg, Germany
- Sebastian Stiller, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
- Sabine Storandt, University of Freiburg, Germany

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STEERING COMMITTEE
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- Matthias Müller-Hannemann, University of Halle, Germany
- Marie Schmidt, Universität Würzburg, Germany
- Anita Schöbel, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
- Christos Zaroliagis, University of Patras, Greece (Chair)

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Jonas Sauer
Postdoctoral Researcher

Computational Analytics Group
Institute of Computer Science
University of Bonn

https://ca.cs.uni-bonn.de/doku.php?id=people:sauer
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[DMANET] Jobs - Fully funded PhD position at Hamburg University of Technology

*Now Hiring: Research Position in AI & Medicine at TU Hamburg*

Our institute, with a long-standing expertise in AI for medicine, is
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You will work on an interdisciplinary research project, develop
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[DMANET] Next-Generation Models for Generative AI

CALL FOR PAPERS

Second Workshop on "Next-Generation Models for Generative AI"
(In conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Digital Data Processing 2025-IEEE)
University of Bedfordshire, Luton. UK
August 18-20, 2025
(IEEE CPS will publish the proceedings, and papers should follow the IEEE template)

AI models use billions of parameters to detect and retrieve text and images. The currently available LL models are being tested for efficiency, while newer models are also being developed. There are many challenges associated with generative AI. The pre-training volume and efficiency are a focus. To leverage the training set with comprehensiveness and accuracy, billions of parameters are injected into the LLM. Current GPTs face criticism, and governments are cautious about their use.
The agenda for the future of Generative AI needs to be clarified. Improved generative tools should be capable of characterising extremist narratives in corpora to reveal different contexts, which may lead to building semantic-rich content for end-users. Evaluating the current models and their outcomes may inform future research. Considering these issues, we organised a workshop to address the theme of next-generation models. The workshop themes include, but are not limited to, the following.

Text, Image, Code, Video, 3D models
Domain-specific models
Impact of Generative AI on Teaching and Learning
Knowledge and Semantic Issues in Generative AI
Future LLM
AI Ethical Issues
AI and NLP
Embedding in AI
Reinforcement learning
Data Support and Datasets in AI
Standards and Benchmarks
Compositional generative models

Workshop Chairs

Gloria Tengyue Li
North China University of Technology
Beijing
China

Simon Fong
University of Macau
Macau

Hathairat Ketmaneechairat
King Mongkut's University of Technology
North Bangkok, Thailand

Important Dates

Submission of Papers: July 15, 2025
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 10, 2025
Camera-ready: August 31, 2025
Registration: August 31, 2025
Conference Dates: August 18-20, 2025
Post-Conference Proceedings Release: November 30, 2025


Paper Submission: http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission

Contact: ddp@socio.org.uk


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Monday, June 23, 2025

[DMANET] Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025 – The 3rd International Workshop on TwinNetApp in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 | Taipei, Taiwan

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You are cordially invited to submit your latest research results to the
TwinNetApp Workshop.


CALL FOR PAPERS
The Third International Workshop on Data Driven and AI-Enabled Digital Twin
Networks and Applications (TwinNetApp) in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM
2025 | Taipei, Taiwan
Workshop Website: https://globecom25-twinnetapp.bcrg.uk/
Conference Website: https://globecom2025.ieee-globecom.org/

The next generation of technologies is envisioned to connect the physical
and digital worlds. In this regard, Digital Twins (DT) is an emerging
technology that has taken the world by storm due to its multiple benefits
and deployment in interdisciplinary applications ranging from real-time
remote monitoring to healthcare, industrial control systems and predictive
maintenance in aerospace. DT connects the physical and digital worlds by
building an accurate virtual replica of system objects in real-time.
Real-time network monitoring, performance testing, optimization, and fast
simulation are some examples that exploit DT advantages in the
communication domain and beyond. DT delivers a new generation platform to
analyze and test complex systems that is not currently available in
traditional simulations and evaluations. Therefore, the use of DT is
required in communication systems. Further, DT can deliver seamless
analysis, monitoring, and predictions between digital and virtual
counterparts of real-world systems, when it is used together with
next-generation mobile communications (5G/6G), Virtual Reality (VR),
Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Transfer Learning
(TL), 3D models, Augmented Reality (AR), distributed computing and
intelligent health applications. The workshop will invite authors to submit
papers presenting new research on all aspects of DT networks, systems and
applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Data-driven and IoT-based DT networks for real-time communication
systems
• Real-time communication protocols for DT networks
• DT-enabled health applications
• Wireless communications for cyber-physical DT applications
• Security and privacy concepts in DT
• Trustworthy AI enabled DT applications
• DT-assisted AI applications for smart cities
• Communications protocols for enabling DT deployment in real-world
applications
• AI applications of DT systems
• DT in Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing
• DT for enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), massive Machine Type
Communications (mMTC), and Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications
(URLLC) applications
• DT for resource management and network optimization
• Connected networking systems for environmental sensing
• DT for precision agriculture, smart city and industry 4.0 applications
• Real-world DT simulations, prototypes, and testbed demonstrations

General Chairs
• Berk Canberk, Edinburgh Napier University, UK (B.Canberk@napier.ac.uk)
• Octavia Dobre, Memorial University, Canada (odobre@mun.ca) (IEEE Fellow)
• Marco Di Renzo, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSupélec,
Laboratoire des Signaux et Systémes, France (
marco.di-renzo@universite-paris-saclay.fr) (IEEE Fellow)

Industrial Chair
• Gokhan Yurdakul, GM of BTS Group (yurdakulg@btsgrp.com)

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July 2025
Paper Acceptance Notification: 1 September 2025
Camera Ready: 1 October 2025


Submission
The page length limit for all initial submissions for review is SIX (6)
printed pages (10-point font) and must be written in English. Initial
submissions longer than SIX (6) pages will be rejected without review.
All final submissions of accepted papers must be written in English with a
maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including
figures. No more than one (1) additional printed page (10-point font) may
be included in final submissions and the extra page (the 7th page) will
incur an over length page charge of US$100.
Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33991&track=132200

Best Paper Award
The workshop will feature a Best Paper Award with a cash prize of 800
Dollars, sponsored by BTS Labs (https://btslabs.ai/).

Kind regards,
Khayal Huseynov
PhD Candidate
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
www.bcrg.uk

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[DMANET] AAAI-26 Call For Papers

We are pleased to invite high-quality submissions to the *Fortieth AAAI
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26)*, which will be held
in *Singapore
EXPO *from January 20 to January 27, 2026.

*Call For Papers*

*TL;DR*: AAAI-26 Call For Papers

*Important Dates*

- Abstract deadline: *July 25, 2025 *at 11:59 PM UTC-12
- Full paper deadline: *August 1, 2025 *at 11:59 PM UTC-12
- Supplementary material/code deadline: *August 4, 2025 *at 11:59 PM
UTC-12
- Notification of final acceptance or rejection (main track): *November
3, 2025*
- AAAI-26 Conference*: January 20-27, 2026*

*Details of Main Track*:
https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/main-technical-track-call/

*Note*: Deadlines are track-specific and may differ from those listed
above. Track-specific deadlines are listed on their respective CFP.

*Additional Tracks/Programs*: AAAI-26 will feature technical paper
presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials,
poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibition
programs, and two other activities: a Bridge Program and a Lab Program.
Please see the AAAI-26 webpage for details.

*Webpage*: https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/

*About AAAI*: The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote
research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange
between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers
across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. Founded in 1979,
the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is a
nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific
understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior
and their embodiment in machines.
Read more *here <https://aaai.org/about-aaai/>: *
https://aaai.org/about-aaai/

*Quick Summary*:

- Three technical tracks (Main Track; AI for Social Impact; AI Alignment)
- Two-phase reviewing for the Main Track:
- Phase 1: Two reviews supplemented by one AI-generated,
non-decisional review.
- Phase 2: Additional reviews for papers not rejected in Phase 1.
- Author response after Phase 2, only for papers not rejected in
Phase 1.
- Metareview and disposition decision after author response period.
- Submissions may consist of up to 7 pages of technical content plus
additional pages solely for references.
- Authors may submit supplementary material, but please note that
reviewers are not required to review this material. Any material critical
to the evaluation of the paper should be included in the main body of the
paper. Three kinds of supplementary material may be submitted alongside all
papers: (1) technical appendix; (2) multimedia; (3) code and data. The
supplementary material deadline is 3 days after the paper submission
deadline.
- All authors must complete a reproducibility checklist to facilitate
replication of the reported research.
- All authors are expected to be available to review (light load),
unless extenuating circumstances apply.
- AAAI-26 is an* in-person* conference.

*AAAI-26 Organizing Committee*

--
Hadi Hosseini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Associate Director, Center for AI Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFE)
Director, FAIR Lab
Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA

https://faculty.ist.psu.edu/hadi/

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[DMANET] Advanced results in discrete mathematics with real life applications in production and logistics are very welcome to the International Journal of Produtcion Research.

Dear Colleagues:

The Google's ranking of Operations Research journals is available on:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_operationsresearch

Advanced results in discrete mathematics with real life applications in
production and logistics are very welcome to the International Journal
of Produtcion Research.

Scientific rigor and practical relevance are two criteria of selection.

Thus, *if you wish your research visible, please publish the best of
your results in the International Journal of Production Research*

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Alexandre Dolgui, Dr.habil., Ph.D., IISE Fellow,
Professor and Head

Automation, Production and Computer Sciences Dept.
IMT Atlantique, LS2N-CNRS
La Chantrerie, 4, rue Alfred Kastler - B.P. 20722
F-44307 NANTES Cedex 3, France
E-mails:alexandre.dolgui@imt-atlantique.fr
URL:https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/en/person/alexandre-dolgui

Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Production Research
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tprs20/current
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Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Engineering by Clarivate 2021 to 2024

Next conference: IFAC MIM'2025:https://conferences.ifac-control.org/mim2025/
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[DMANET] BRAINS 2025 (Extended Deadline) - Call for Papers, Posters, and Demos - Zurich - November 2025

Apologies for cross-posting.

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*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

7th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative
Networks and Services

BRAINS 2025

November 18 - 21, 2025

Zurich, Switzerland

(In-person conference)

https://brains.dnac.org/2025/ [1]

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- Full and Short Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2025

- Demo/Poster Submission deadline: September 15, 2025

👉 Submissions Link: https://edas.info/N33559 [2]

BRAINS 2025 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE ComSoc, all
accepted and presented papers will be submitted for publication in IEEE
Xplore.

The best technical papers presented at the conference will be invited to
submit an extended version for fast-track review in the ACM DLT journal
(Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice

Decentralized technologies (Web3, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger
Technologies, IPFS) have started to disrupt multiple domains, including
finance and payments but also networks, computing, supply chain,
identity management or Artificial Intelligence with decentralized
learning.

BRAINS conference is dedicated to these advances that could make the
world of networks and services more secure while enabling new
distributed business models.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Effective challenges for decentralized systems

* Theoretical contributions to Blockchain, DLT and decentralized
storage

* Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including
domain-specific consensus

* Protocols and algorithms

* Distributed ledger analytics

* Trade-offs between decentralization, scalability, performance, and
security

* Zero-Knowledge proofs

* Layer 2 solutions for scalability and privacy

* Blockchain interoperability and cross-chain mechanisms

* Storage solutions and data availability
* Obstacles to achieve effective decentralization
* Adversarial attacks and participant's strategic behaviour

Fundamentals of Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts, and chain code:

* Languages and tooling for dApp development

* Security, privacy, and forensics

* Transaction monitoring and analysis

* Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code

* Token Economy, incentives, and protocols

* Tokenization of Intangible, Real-world Assets

* Blockchain-defined networking

* Web3 and distributed storage and computation

Application and service cases of DLT and Smart contracts:

* Blockchain and AI, federated and decentralized learning

* Identity management

* Finance, payments, and fraud detection and prevention

* Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and payments

* IoT and cyber-physical systems

* Smart grids and Industry 4.0, including dataspaces

* V2X, connected and autonomous vehicles

* Networking, Edge, and Cloud technologies

* Blockchain for Beyond 5G and 6G technologies

* Service or resource marketplaces

* Public sector Blockchain solutions and infrastructures

* Results from large collaborative projects on these topics

* Blockchain for education, public administration, health

* Blockchain for Business Process and Supply Chain Management

* Regulations and policies

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently
under review in any other conference or journal and has not been
previously published. All submissions should be written in English
following the Two-Column IEEE Conference Format, with a maximum of eight
(8) pages (Full Papers), four (4) pages (Short Papers and work in
progress), or two (2) pages (Poster Papers), including text, figures,
and references. Papers should be submitted through EDAS at:
https://edas.info/N33559 [2]

Double-Blind Review

All submissions must be anonymous. We follow a relaxed double-blind peer
review process: authors are allowed to share their work on platforms
such as arXiv and present it publicly. However, authors should not
mention their own name or affiliation in the submission, or include
obvious references that reveal their identity. A reviewer who has not
previously encountered the work should be able to read the submission
without learning the authors' identities.

If your work is not yet available online (e.g., on arXiv), we recommend
waiting until after the notification of acceptance before posting it
publicly.

For any questions regarding the double-blind policy, please contact the
general co-chairs of BRAINS 2025

Student Track

We encourage the submission of student papers (i.e., all authors of the
paper must be MSc or PhD students) on the topics mentioned in the CFP.
Student papers have to be clearly stated on the first page. The papers
should follow the same guidelines as short papers (max 4 pages) and be
submitted on the dedicated track for student papers.

Best paper awards

Two best paper awards will be delivered:

* Best Full Paper Award
* Best Student Paper Award

Important Dates:

* Paper Submission deadline: June 15, 2025
* Notification of Acceptance: September 11, 2025
* Camera-Ready: September 22, 2025

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#Call for Posters and Demos

BRAINS 2025 will also hold demo and poster sessions in the areas
specified above. Hence, prospective authors are invited to submit their
demo and poster proposals in the form of a 3-page paper in IEEE
conference double-column format.

All submissions must be done electronically through EDAS using the
following link: https://edas.info/N33559 [2]

IMPORTANT DATES

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Demo/Poster Submission deadline: September 15, 2025

Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2025

Camera-Ready: October 15, 2025

For more details visit :

https://brains.dnac.org/2025/call-for-demos-posters/ [3]

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TPC Chairs

Quentin Bramas (University of Strasbourg, France)

Sheng-Nan Li (UZH BCC, Switzerland)

Philip Raschke (TU Berlin, Germany )

Marcus Völp (CritiX Lab, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security,
Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

General Chairs:

Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Innovation, France)

Claudio J. Tessone (UZH BCC, Switzerland)

Details: https://brains.dnac.org/ [1]

Looking forward to your submissions!

Links:
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[DMANET] 【3rd CFP】IWAE 2025

The 2025 International Workshop on Algorithms in Engineering in conjunction
with
2025 IET International Conference of Engineering Technologies and
Applications will be held at
National Taipei University of Business, Taoyuan, Taiwan, on October 24-26,
2025.
The conference proceedings will be published by the IET (Institution of
Engineering and Technology),
included in the IET Digital Library, indexed in EI Compendex, and currently
under application for indexing in DBLP.
A Special Issue in a leading journal in Theoretical Computer Science is
currently being planned.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Ad Hoc, Dynamic and Evolving Networks
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Algorithmic Game Theory
- Approximation Algorithms and Online Algorithms
- Automata, Languages, Logic, and Computability
- Complexity Theory
- Computational Learning Theory and Knowledge Discovery
- Cryptography, Reliability and Security, and Database Theory
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Computational Algebra, Geometry, and Number Theory
- Experimental Algorithms and Applications
- Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms
- Fault Tolerant Computing and Fault Diagnosis
- Foundations of Cloud Computing
- Graph Drawing and Information Visualization
- Graph Theory, Communication Networks, and Optimization
- Intelligent Algorithms and Applications
- Mobile Agents
- Online Algorithms
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Parameterized and Exact Algorithms
- Streaming Algorithms

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Important Dates
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Full paper submission: June 30, 2025 (AoE)
Paper notification: September 1, 2025
Camera-ready paper due date: September 8, 2025
Conference Dates: October 24-26, 2025

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Submission instructions:
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Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts presenting original,
unpublished research related to the symposium's topics.
Submissions must not be under consideration for publication at any other
conference or workshop with published proceedings.
Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of its
authors.
Authors should note that the abstract is a concise summary (80–200 words)
of their full 2-page paper.
Submission Guidelines:
Submissions must be in PDF format, prepared using the official templates
available at: https://iceta2025.ntub.edu.tw/call-for-papers/
The main paper should not exceed 2 pages, including the title page and
references.
An optional appendix may be included for additional details, clearly marked
as such, and will be read at the discretion of the Program Committee.
Any figures related to the main content must be incorporated within the 2-page
limit.
For further details, please refer to the conference website.

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Awards:
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Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. To be
eligible for the best student paper award,
at least one of the paper authors must be a full-time student at the time
of submission,
and the student(s) must have made a significant contribution to the paper.
The program committee may decline to make these awards or may split them.


Conference website: https://iceta2025.ntub.edu.tw/
Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieticeta2025

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Program Chairs
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Ling-Ju Hung, National Taipei University of Business, Taiwan
Ralf Klasing, CNRS and Bordeaux University, France

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Program Committee
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Matthias Bentert, TU Berlin, Germany
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Arnaud Casteigts, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Li-Hsuan Chen, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Po-An Chen, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Eddie Cheng, Oakland University, USA
Romaric Duvignau, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Thomas Erlebach, Durham University, UK
Henning Fernau, University of Trier, Germany
Florent Foucaud, LIMOS – Université Clermont Auvergne, France
Leszek Gasieniec, University of Liverpool, UK
Sun-Yuan Hsieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Shang-En Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Tomasz Jurdziński, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Sanpawat Kantabutra, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Thierry Lecroq, University of Rouen, France
Chia-Wei Lee, University of Taipei, Taiwan
Chung-Shou Liao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Leo Liberti, LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Cheng-Kuan Lin, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Yaping Mao, Qinghai Normal University, China
Tobias Mömke, University of Augsburg, Germany
Nils Morawietz, University of Jena, Germany
Nicolas Nisse, INRIA – Université Côte d'Azur, France
Kung-Jui Pai, Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan
Tomasz Radzik, King's College London, UK
Mikhail Raskin, University of Bordeaux, France
Peter Rossmanith, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Meng-Tsung Tsai, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Hung-Lung Wang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Tomoyuki Yamakami, University of Fukui, Japan
Shuming Zhou, Fujian Normal University, China

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[DMANET] [Third Announcement] Fifth Conference of Young Applied Mathematicians (YAMC)

Dear all,

We are glad to announce the fifth "Conference of Young Applied
Mathematicians", which will be held between the 22nd and the 26th of
September 2025 in Padua (PD), Italy.

As for the previous years, the conference aims to gather young researchers
(PhD students and postdocs) working in the fields of Numerical Analysis,
Numerical Modelling, Statistics, and Machine Learning.

Every conference day will be opened by a plenary talk that will be given by
senior lecturers. The remainder of the session is dedicated to the
participants, who are strongly encouraged to present their research
projects or activities. To allow everyone to talk, two parallel sessions
will be organized.

Moreover
- Every accepted contribution to the conference will be published as a long
abstract in a collection curated by CNR edizioni, which will be available
online.
- An extended contribution may be submitted for publication in a dedicated
special issue of the JCAM. A peer review process will select the best
contributions for publication.

For further details, please visit the website:
http://www.yamc.it/

For anyone interested in taking part in this conference, this is the link
for the application form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZImrutdOe17MTAuDj-XnQXpV9dhgjGtfetH1Mnh5CRV_u9w/viewform?usp=header

Please keep in mind that we have limited spots. It will still be possible
to apply after the early registration closes until all the spots are filled.

We kindly ask you to help us publicize the event.

For any questions, please contact us at info@yamc.it

Thank you.

Best regards,
The organizers

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Sunday, June 22, 2025

[DMANET] [CFP] IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence of Things (IEEE AIoT 2025), Osaka, Japan

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CALL FOR PAPERS & Call for Workshop Proposals

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IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence of Things

*(**IEEE AIoT** 2025), **Dec**. **3**-**5**, 2025,* *Osaka, Japan*

https://www.ieee-aiot.org/

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*Call for Papers*

*Important Dates:*

Paper Submission Due: 1 July 2025

Notification of Acceptance: 3 October 2025

Final Manuscript (Camera Ready): 3 November 2025

*Submission Link:* https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeaiot2025

*Call for Workshop Proposals *

*https://ieee-aiot.org/2025/cf-workshops.php*

*The deadline for submission is May 20, 2025 (AoE). *

*All workshop proposals should be submitted electronically to:
aiot2025workshoss@googlegroups.com*

IEEE AIoT 2025 aims at bringing together interested parties (universities,
research centers, industries and stakeholders) from around the world
working in the fields of AI and Internet of Things to exchange opinions,
discuss brand-new ideas, developing innovative and emerging solutions, and
establishing new collaborations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two of
the most rapidly evolving and interdependent fields of technology. The
convergence of these two fields is leading to the creation of an emerging
interdisciplinary field, dubbed the Artificial Intelligence of Things
(AIoT). The AIoT represents the integration of AI technologies into IoT
systems and devices, enabling them to interact with their environment in
more sophisticated and intelligent ways. By combining IoT with AI, the data
collected by distributed nodes can be utilized by applying AI techniques
such as machine learning and deep learning. As a result, machine learning
capabilities are moved closer to the data source.

The IEEE AIoT Conference aims to explore the integration of artificial
intelligence (AI) technologies into the Internet of Things (IoT) systems
and devices, enabling them to interact with their environment in more
sophisticated and intelligent ways. The conference will focus on the
following areas:

l AIoT Architectures, Frameworks, and Algorithms: Developing novel AIoT
architectures, frameworks, and algorithms for deploying state-of-the-art
machine learning and deep learning algorithms on IoT and edge devices,
realising the so-called Edge AI or Edge Intelligence;

l AIoT Applications: Identifying and exploring new AIoT applications,
including healthcare, smart homes, industrial automation, transportation,
and digital agriculture;

l Standards and Interoperability: Developing standards and protocols for
AIoT systems and ensuring interoperability between different platforms and
devices; and

l Ethics and Security: Addressing ethical and security concerns related to
AIoT, such as privacy, transparency, and accountability.

Authors are cordially invited to submit their original papers within the
AIoT area to the following 5 Tracks.

*Track 1: Big Data Analytics and IoT Applications*

https://ieee-aiot.org/2025/track1.php

*Track Chairs: *Hamada Rizk Osaka University, Japan

Constandinos Mavromoustakis University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Jordi Mongay Batalla Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

*Topics: *

· Scalable data analytics for IoT ecosystems

· Real-time data processing and stream analytics

· IoT-enabled smart cities and urban planning

· Predictive maintenance using IoT and machine learning

· Edge and fog computing for IoT applications

· Cybersecurity and privacy-preserving analytics in IoT systems

· AI-driven insights from IoT-generated big data

· Blockchain for secure IoT networks

· Smart healthcare applications with IoT and big data

· Industrial IoT (IIoT) for manufacturing and supply chain optimization

· Advanced data mining techniques for massive data

*Track 2: AI for IoT Communications and Networking*

https://ieee-aiot.org/2025/track2.php

*Track Chairs:* Huihui Wang Northeastern University, USA

Sandip Chakraborty Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

Jehad Ali Ajou University, South Korea

*Topics: *

· AI-enhanced Authentication for IoT Devices

· AI-based Access Control for IoT

· AI for Truth Verification and Management in IoT

· AI for Data Privacy in IoT Devices and Services

· Federated Learning in IoT Security

· Edge-Deployed AI Security in IoT

· Incentive Strategies for AI Interaction in IoT

· AI Applications for Smart City IoT Security

· Data Security for AI-powered IoT

· Attacks Prevention in Software-Defined IoT leveraging AI

· Security in SD-IoT leveraging AI

· Privacy-enhancing Technologies in Intelligent IoT Systems

· AI-enabled Attacks and Defenses for IoT Devices and Services

· AI for Communication Security of IoT Devices

· Malware Analysis for Intelligent IoT

· Vulnerability Analysis for AI-integrated IoT Devices

· Intelligent Forensics Tools, Techniques, and Procedures for IoT

· Emerging Data Bias Security Issues in Intelligent IoT Systems

· Lightweight Hardware Verification in Intelligent IoT Systems

*Track 3: Edge, Cloud, and Fog Computing in IoT *

https://ieee-aiot.org/2025/track3.php

*Track Chairs:* Chih-Yu Wang Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Anna Maria Vegni Roma Tre University, Italy

Cristian-Nicolae Buțincu Gheorghe Asachi Technical University, Romania

*Topics: *

· Resource management and allocation in Edge-Fog-Cloud for IoT

· Joint scheduling and optimization of networking and distributed
computing resources for IoT

· Edge/fog computing and network services architecture for IoT

· IoT Middleware for cloud/fog computing applications

· Resource slicing in the IoT computing continuum

· Autonomic distributed service and network management

· Business models for the IoT computing continuum

· QoS/QoE management for static and mobile IoT applications in
Edge-Fog-Cloud

· Machine learning and distributed learning for edge-fog-cloud resource
management for IoT

· Distributed learning deployment, management and applications for IoT

· DNN Partitioning and Offloading in Edge-Fog-Cloud for IoT

· AI Models (including LLMs) with edge-fog-cloud computing: inference
and training

· IoT-enabled Edge Intelligence

· AI empowered autonomous edge intelligence for IoT

· Edge Computing Architectures and Protocols for IoT

· Cloud and Fog Computing for Scalable IoT Systems

· Fog Computing as an IoT Middleware

· Fog and Edge Networking in IoT

· Security and Privacy for IoT in Edge, Cloud, and Fog Computing

· Latency Optimization and Real-time Processing in IoT

· AI and Machine Learning in Edge, Cloud, and Fog IoT

· IoT Data Management and Distributed Storage

· Energy-Efficient IoT Systems with Edge and Fog Computing

· IoT Integration with 5G and Next-Generation Networks

· IoT in Smart Cities: Leveraging Edge, Cloud, and Fog Computing

· IoT Application Case Studies

· Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Edge, Cloud and Fog Computing

· Interoperability and Standardization in IoT Computing Models

· Next-Generation Computing Models for IoT

*Track 4: Security, Trust, Privacy in AI and IoT*

https://ieee-aiot.org/2025/track4.php

*Track Chairs:* Jiawei Yuan University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA

Saed Alrabaee United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Thomas Tan Edinburgh Napier University, UK

*Topics: *

· AI-enhanced Authentication for IoT Devices

· AI-based Access Control for IoT

· AI for Truth Verification and Management in IoT

· AI for Data Privacy in IoT Devices and Services

· Federated Learning in IoT Security

· Edge-Deployed AI Security in IoT

· Incentive Strategies for AI Interaction in IoT

· AI Applications for Smart City IoT Security

· Data Security for AI-powered IoT

· Privacy-enhancing Technologies in Intelligent IoT Systems

· AI-enabled Attacks and Defenses for IoT Devices and Services

· AI for Communication Security of IoT Devices

· Malware Analysis for Intelligent IoT

· Vulnerability Analysis for AI-integrated IoT Devices

· Intelligent Forensics Tools, Techniques, and Procedures for IoT

· Emerging Data Bias Security Issues in Intelligent IoT Systems

· Lightweight Hardware Verification in Intelligent IoT Systems

· Side-Channel Attacks and Defense in Intelligent IoT Systems

· The implications of machine unlearning for security, trust, and
privacy in AI and IoT

*Track 5: Ubiquitous IoT: Space, Air, Ground, and Sea*

https://ieee-aiot.org/2025/track5.php

*Track Chairs: *Farhad Rezazadeh Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de
Catalunya, Spain

Andrii Shalaginov Kristiania University College, Norway

Rajkumar Singh Rathore Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK

*Topics: *

· Energy-efficient tinyML for critical applications

· Trustworthy AI for autonomous vehicles

· Federated Learning in mission control and decision support

· Satellite-enabled communication for Ubiquitous IoT platforms

· 5G/6G network slicing for civil and military platforms

· AI-assisted Cyberwarfare in Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS)
communications

· Securing AI-enabled IoT and OT platforms

*Paper Format and Submission*

IEEE AIoT 2025 invites submission of manuscripts with original research
results that have not been previously published or posted on public
websites or that are not currently under review by another conference or
journal. Submitted manuscripts must be prepared according to IEEE Computer
Society Proceedings Format (double column, 10pt font, letter paper) and
submitted in the PDF format. The manuscript submitted for review should be
no longer than 8 pages. After the manuscript is accepted, the camera-ready
paper may have up to 10 pages, subject to an additional fee per extra page.
Reviewing will be double-blind. Submissions must not reveal the authors'
names and their affiliations and avoid obvious self-references. Manuscripts
should be submitted to one of the research tracks. Submissions not meeting
these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits.
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE AIoT 2025
Conference Proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore.

*Submission Link:* https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeaiot2025

*Important Dates:*

Paper Submission Due: 1 July 2025

Notification of Acceptance: 3 October 2025

Final Manuscript (Camera Ready): 3 November 2025

*Organization Committee *

*General Chairs:*

Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan

Albert Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia

Henry Leung, University of Calgary, Canada

*TPC Chairs:*

Houbing Herbert Song, University of Maryland, USA

Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Osaka University, Japan

Hung-Yu Wei, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Pietro Manzoni, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

*Keynote Chair:*

Reza Malekian, Malmö University, Sweden

*Workshop Chairs:*

Yutaka Arakawa, Kyushu University, Japan

Andrea Sciarrone, University of Genoa, Italy

*Poster Chairs:*

Takuro Yonezawa, Nagoya University, Japan

Chiara Garibotto, University of Genoa, Italy

*Publication Chair:*

Jia Hu, University of Exeter, U.K.

*Publicity Chairs:*

Zhengxin Yu, Lancaster University, U.K.

Mostafa Fouda, Idaho State University, ID, USA

Zhibo Wang, Zhejiang University, China

*Web Chair:*

Haihan Nan, George Mason University, USA

*Financial Chairs:*

Peiying Colleen Ruan, Nvidia, Japan

Ting Yang, Kanazawa University, Japan

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[DMANET] ICALP 2025 Satellite Workshop: Algorithmic Aspects of Temporal Graphs VIII

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ICALP 2025 Satellite Workshop

"Algorithmic Aspects of Temporal Graphs VIII"

Aarhus, Denmark, Monday 7 July 2025.

Website:
https://mertzios.net/Workshops/ICALP-25-Satellite/Temporal-Graphs-ICALP-2025.html

*Hybrid* event (talks will also be streamed on *Teams*)

A participant can register only to the workshop (Monday 7 July), or to
both the workshop and the main ICALP conference (Monday 7 July to Friday
11 July).

Full information about the registration to the workshop and/or the
conference (ICALP 2025), as well as about accommodation, is given here:
https://conferences.au.dk/icalp2025/registration

For those who cannot attend in person, the meeting will also be hosted
on Teams. To receive the link for the Teams session, please register as
soon as possible (with your name and email address) using this link:
https://forms.gle/zJNhZv9Ghqcasw3F9
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We kindly invite you to participate in the 8th ICALP satellite workshop
on "Algorithmic Aspects of Temporal Graphs" which will be held in person
in Aarhus (Denmark) on Monday 7 July 2025. In this one-day workshop,
recent advances in the area of temporal / dynamically changing graphs
will be presented, as well as some of the key challenges will be
highlighted.

Presentations are given by invitation only. Everyone is welcome to
register and attend!

*Speakers:*
Michelle Doering (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany)
Duncan Adamson (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Nicolas Klodt (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany)
Gabor Lugosi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Bacelona, Spain)
Daniele Carnevale (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
Jayakrishnan Madathil (University of Glasgow, UK)
Ana Silva (Federal University of Ceará, Brasil)
Mikael Rabie (Université Paris Cité, France)
Aurora Rossi (DS4H Université Côte d'Azur, France)
Ilie Sarpe, (KTH, Sweden)

To attend in-person, register for the workshops day of ICALP 2025 at
https://conferences.au.dk/icalp2025/registration

Organizers:
George B. Mertzios (Durham University)
Paul G. Spirakis (University of Liverpool)
Eleni C. Akrida (Durham University)
Viktor Zamaraev (University of Liverpool)

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Dr. George B. Mertzios
Associate Professor in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Durham University, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 191 33 42 429
Email:george.mertzios@durham.ac.uk
https://mertzios.net/

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Saturday, June 21, 2025

[DMANET] ALENEX 2026 2nd Call for Papers

ALENEX 2026 Call for Papers

The aim of ALENEX is to provide a forum for the presentation of original
research in the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of
algorithms and data structures. Typical submissions will include an
extensive experimental analysis of nontrivial algorithmic results, ideally
bridging the gap between theory and practice. We also invite submissions
that address methodological issues and standards in the experimental
evaluation of algorithms and data structures.

We welcome submissions on a broad range of topics within algorithm
engineering and the experimental analysis of algorithms and data
structures, including but not limited to the following:
● Combinatorial optimization and mathematical programming, including
scheduling and resource allocation problems
● Computational biology and bioinformatics
● Data science and data management, including databases
● Design and analysis of application-inspired exact, approximation,
randomized, streaming, and learning-augmented algorithms
● Graph and hypergraph algorithms, including problems arising in
network science and complex networks
● String algorithms and data structures
● Computational geometry
● Interaction between algorithms and modern computing platforms,
including challenges arising from memory hierarchies, accelerators, and
novel memory technologies
● Parallel and distributed computing, including algorithms,
architectures, distributed systems, and all parallelism ranging from
instruction-level and multi-core all the way to clouds and Exascale
computing
● Machine learning and statistical methods for solving combinatorial
problems
● Other applications arising from security, computational finance,
computational chemistry/physics, quantum computing, etc.

Proceedings will be posted online in January 2026. ALENEX is supported by
SIAM.

Since researchers in all fields are approaching the problem of learning
detailed information about the performance of particular algorithms, we
expect that interesting synergies will develop between the co-located
conferences.

The following conferences will be held jointly:
● ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
● SIAM Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)
● SIAM Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA)

Important Dates
Full Paper Submission: July 18, 2025
Author Notification: August 30, 2025
AE submission (for accepted papers): September 6, 2025
AE author notification: October 8, 2025
Camera ready submission: October 15, 2025

Program Committee Chairs
Simon J. Puglisi (University of Helsinki)
Nate Veldt (Texas A&M University)

Program Committee
Aydin Buluc (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.)
Sarah Cannon (Claremont McKenna College, U.S.)
Laxman Dhulipala (University of Maryland, U.S.)
Jonas Ellert (ENS Paris, France)
S M Ferdous (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S.)
Assefaw Gebremedhin (Washington State University, U.S.)
Yan Gu (UC Riverside, U.S.)
Inge Li Gørtz (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Christian Komusiewicz (University of Jena, Germany)
Quanquan C. Liu (Princeton University, U.S.)
Joel Mackenzie (University of Queensland, Australia)
Prashant Pandey (Northeastern University, U.S.)
Frank Sommer (TU Wien, Austria)
Sabine Storandt (University of Konstanz, Germany)
David Tench (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.)
Helen Xu (Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.)

Steering Committee Chair
Martin Farach-Colton, New York University, U.S.

Steering Committee
Kathrin Hanauer (University of Vienna, Austria)
Solon Pissis (CWI, Netherlands)
Julian Shun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.)
Paolo Ferragina (University of Pisa, Italy)
Alex Pothen (Purdue University, U.S.)
Helen Xu (Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.)

The EasyChair submission site is available:

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=alenex26

For questions, please contact ALENEX'26 co-chairs, Simon Puglisi
(simon.puglisi@ helsinki.fi) and Nate Veldt (nveldt@tamu.edu).

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[DMANET] SSS 2025 - 3rd Call for Papers

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SSS 2025 3rd Call for Papers
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27th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of
Distributed Systems
October 9-11, 2025
Kathmandu, Nepal
https://sss2025.conf.lip6.fr<https://sss2025.conf.lip6.fr/>
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Co-located event MAC 2025 (October 12-13, 2025) https://gokarnasharma.github.io/mac25


[Important Dates]
1st Paper Submission Deadline: March 21, 2025 (11:59 PM AoE)
1st Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2025
1st Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 10, 2025
2nd Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025 (11:59 PM AoE)
2nd Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2025
2nd Camera-Ready Copy Due: July 15, 2025
3rd Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025 (11:59 PM AoE)
3rd Acceptance Notification: August 30, 2025
3rd Camera-Ready Copy Due: September 10, 2025
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The 27th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2025) will be held at Kathmandu, Nepal on October 9-11, 2025.
https://sss2025.conf.lip6.fr<https://sss2025.conf.lip6.fr/>
SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of distributed systems with a focus on systems that are able to provide guarantees on their structure, performance, and/or security in the face of an adverse operational environment. The symposium encourages submissions of original contributions on both fundamental research and practical applications concerning topics in the symposium tracks:
Track A. Stabilization and Locality in Distributed Computing (Track Chair: Peter Robinson, Augusta University, USA)

* Stabilizing Systems
* Proof labelling schemes
* Graph Algorithms
* Graph-theoretic concepts for communication networks
* Social and Peer-to-Peer Networks
* LOCAL/CONGEST models
* Communication complexity
* Game-theory and economical aspects of distributed computing
* Dynamic networks, time-varying graphs, evolving graphs

Track B. Time, Safety, and Security in Distributed Computing (Track Chair: Silvia Bonomi, Sapienza University, Italy)

* Concurrent and fault-tolerant algorithms
* Synchronization protocols
* Shared and transactional memory
* Blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies
* Formal methods, semantics and verification of distributed systems
* Secure multi-party computation and cryptographic distributed protocols
* Privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymity
* Post-quantum and information theoretic cryptography and security

Track C. Moving and Computing (Track Chair: Partha Sarathi Mandal, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

* Mobile agents
* Autonomous mobile robots
* Mobile sensor networks
* Mobile ad-hoc networks
* Population protocols
* Nature-inspired computing
* Programmable particles, nanoscale robots, biological systems, and related new models

[New Conference Model]
We experiment with a new conference model. There will be THREE non-overlapping deadlines, and thus three submission rounds. Papers that are rejected at an early round (1 or 2) may be reworked, corrected, enhanced, and resubmitted at a later round (2 or 3), if wished by the authors. Of course, accepted papers at an early round are definitely accepted and should not be submitted again at a later round. In case of resubmission, reviews from the previously submitted round will be transmitted to the reviewers of the resubmission round.
[Paper Submission]
Papers are to be submitted electronically through EasyChair:
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2024> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2025<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2024>
All submissions must conform to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS series (see
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines> https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
Each submission must be an original work written in English, in PDF format.
[Double-blind Review]
All submissions must be anonymous. We use a somewhat relaxed implementation of double-blind peer review: you are free to disseminate your work through arXiv and other online repositories and give presentations on your work as usual. However, please make sure you do not mention your own name or affiliation in the submission, and please do not include obvious references in the text that reveal your identity. A reviewer who has not previously seen the paper should be able to read it without accidentally learning the identities of the authors. Please feel free to ask the general co-chairs if you have any questions about the double-blind policy of SSS 2025.
[Submissions]
There are two types of submissions: regular papers and brief announcements.

* A regular submission must not exceed 15 pages (including the title, abstract, figures, and excluding references). Additional necessary details for an expert to verify the main claims of the submission may be included in a clearly marked appendix if extra space is needed.
* A brief announcement submission must not exceed 5 pages including everything.

Any submission deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of its merits. It is recommended that a regular submission begins with a succinct statement of the problem being addressed, a summary of the main results or conclusions, a brief explanation of their significance, a brief statement of the key ideas, and a comparison with related work, all tailored to a non-specialist. Technical development of the work, directed to the specialist, should follow. Papers outside of the conference scope will be rejected without review. For the third round only, if requested by the authors on the cover page, a regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for the brief announcement format. This will not affect consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.
[Publication]
Regular papers and brief announcements will be included in the conference proceedings. Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS conference series.
[Special Issue]
Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier).
[Paper Award]
Prizes will be given to the best regular paper and best student regular paper. A regular paper is eligible for the best student regular paper if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at submission time. Authors should clearly indicate whether their submission is eligible to be considered for the best student regular paper award (e.g., using a \thanks in the title). The PC may decline to confer awards or may split awards.
[Organization]
General Co-Chairs

* Gokarna Sharma (Kent State University, USA)
* Sébastien Tixeuil (Sorbonne University, France)

Local Organization Committee

* Shree Bhadra Wagle (Chair) (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Keshar Prasain (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Rabindra Khati (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Prahlad Chapagain (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Sahadeep Thapa (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Saroj Sharma (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Suman Shrestha (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)

Treasurer

* Kamal Khadga (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)

Proceedings Chair

* Pavan Poudel (University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA)

Registration Chair

* Ramesh Adhikari (Augusta University, USA)

Track Chairs

* Track A: Peter Robinson (Augusta University, USA)
* Track B: Silvia Bonomi (Sapienza University, Italy)
* Track C: Partha Sarathi Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

Steering Committee

* Anish Arora (Ohio State University, USA)
* Shlomi Dolev (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
* Sayaka Kamei (Hiroshima University, Japan)
* Sandeep Kulkarni (Michigan State University, USA)
* Toshimitsu Masuzawa (The University of Osaka, Japan)
* Franck Petit (Sorbonne Université, France)
* Elad Michael Schiller (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
* Sébastien Tixeuil (Chair) (Sorbonne Université, France)

Advisory Committee

* Sukumar Ghosh (University of Iowa, USA)
* Ted Herman (University of Iowa, USA)


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Gokarna Sharma and Sébastien Tixeuil

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Gokarna Sharma, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & CS Undergraduate Advisor

Office: 268 Mathematical Sciences Building

Department of Computer Science
Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA

http://www.cs.kent.edu/~sharma/

Email: gsharma2@kent.edu<mailto:gsharma2@kent,.edu>, Ph: (330) 672-9065


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[DMANET] Call for contributions: 2nd International Workshop on Highlights in Organizing and Optimizing Proof-logging Systems (WHOOPS '25)

Dear colleagues,

This message is a call for contributions to the */2nd International
Workshop on Highlights in Organizing and Optimizing Proof-logging
Systems (WHOOPS '25)/* on *September 13-14, 2025,* in *Paris. *

Please send a message to Jakob Nordström at jn@di.ku.dk if you wish to
contribute a presentation on proof logging, certifying algorithms, or
verifiably correct results in general for algorithms or problems in
combinatorial solving or automated reasoning broadly construed.
Presentation slots will be 30 minutes, including time for questions,
discussions, and switching speakers. The intention is that contributed
talks will be scheduled on Sunday September 14, with Saturday September
13 reserved for longer tutorial-style talks.

For more information about the workshop, please see the text below or
visit the webpage https://jakobnordstrom.se/WHOOPS25/. We would be most
grateful for your assistance in sharing this information with any
colleagues for whom this might be of interest.

Best regards,
Jakob Nordström


2nd International Workshop on Highlights in Organizing and Optimizing
Proof-logging Systems (WHOOPS '25)

The */2nd International Workshop on Highlights in Organizing and
Optimizing Proof-logging Systems (WHOOPS '25)/* will be held on
*September 13-14, 2025,* at *Institut Pascal
<https://www.institut-pascal.universite-paris-saclay.fr/> in Orsay* on
the outskirts of Paris in coordination with the /EuroProofNet Workshop
on Automated Reasoning and Proof Logging
<https://europroofnet.github.io/wg2-symposium/>/, which is in turn part
of the /Final EuroProofNet Symposium
<https://europroofnet.github.io/Symposium/>/.

More information about the workshop can be found at
https://jakobnordstrom.se/WHOOPS25/. Please contact Jakob Nordström
<https://jakobnordstrom.se/> if you wish to contribute a presentation.


Background and Purpose

Since the turn of the millennium there have been dramatic improvements
in algorithms for combinatorial solving and optimization. The flipside
of this is that as the methods get increasingly sophisticated, it
becomes increasingly harder to avoid bugs sneaking in during algorithm
design and implementation, and even the most mature tools currently
available struggle with incorrect results. Software testing, while
important, has not been sufficient to resolve this problem, and formal
verification methods are far from being able to scale to the level of
complexity in modern combinatorial solvers. During the last twenty years
the Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving community has instead
spearheaded the use of /proof logging/, meaning that the SAT solvers
have to output, along the answer to a problem, a machine-verifiable
proof that this answer is correct. Such solvers are also referred to as
/certifying algorithms/.

For a long time, attempts to extend proof logging to stronger paradigms
in combinatorial solving and optimization have met with limited success,
but this has changed in the last few years with the introduction of
/pseudo-Boolean (PB) proof logging/. Pseudo-Boolean proofs operate with
0-1 integer linear inequalities using a version of the cutting planes
proof system, but have turned out to be a very convenient format also
for algorithms that reason in terms of very different concepts. The
/VeriPB <https://gitlab.com/MIAOresearch/software/VeriPB>/ tool
developed by the /Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization
(MIAO) <https://jakobnordstrom.se/miao-group/>/ research group in
Copenhagen/Lund and its collaborators has so far been shown to support
efficient proof logging for paradigms such as SAT-based optimization
(MaxSAT), pseudo-Boolean optimization, subgraph solving, constraint
programming, automated planning, and presolving in 0-1 integer linear
programming, as well as for techniques such as symmetry breaking and
dynamic programming.

These developments have been so fast that in 2024 the fairly spontaneous
idea arose to gather researchers working on pseudo-Boolean proof logging
to an informal gathering, which—reflecting the rather improvised nature
of the event—was named the /1st Workshop on Highlights in Organizing and
Optimizing Proof-logging Systems (WHOOPS '24)/
<https://jakobnordstrom.se/WHOOPS24/>. This year, the second edition of
the workshop will be held on September 13-14 in Orsay outside Paris
under the auspices of EuroProofNet <http://europroofnet.github.io/>.
While we still expect a healthy dose of pseudo-Boolean proof logging, we
are very much hoping to also discuss certifying algorithms for automated
reasoning more broadly, including satisfiability modulo theories (SMT)
solving and first- and higher-order theorem proving.


Registration

Registration is free but mandatory, and is done by filling in the
registration form <https://forms.gle/QLFzh3Ugv5WgkhZr7>.


Workshop Program

More information about the program will be available closer to the
workshop at https://jakobnordstrom.se/WHOOPS25/. The tentative plans are
that:

* Saturday will consist of slightly longer, tutorial-style, talks,
explaining how pseudo-Boolean proof logging can support efficient
certified solving for paradigms such as SAT-based optimization
(MaxSAT), pseudo-Boolean optimization, subgraph solving, constraint
programming, automated planning, as well as for techniques such as
symmetry breaking and dynamic programming.
* On Sunday we will have contributed talks, where we might still have
some presentations of the very latest news in pseudo-Boolean proof
logging, but where we are very much hoping to also discuss
certifying algorithms for automated reasoning more broadly,
including satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solving and first-
and higher-order theorem proving.

/Please contact Jakob Nordström <https://jakobnordstrom.se/> if you
would be interested in giving a presentation at the WHOOPS '25 workshop.

/
Jakob Nordström, Professor
University of Copenhagen and Lund University
Phone: +45 28 78 38 11 / +46 70 742 21 98
https://jakobnordstrom.se/

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[DMANET] Workshop: Modern Perspectives on Geometry of Numbers - First announcement and registration

Dear colleagues,

We are very happy to announce the international workshop on

Modern Perspectives on Geometry Numbers.

The workshop will take place from September 9 to September 12, 2025, at BTU Cottbus, Germany. The webpage of the workshop is

https://ansgarfreyer.github.io/workshop/home.html

The goal of the workshop is to discuss most recent results from various fields which are linked through Minkowski's geometry of numbers. The program will consist of 17 research talks as well as two mini courses.

There is no conference fee, but we kindly ask all participants to register via this form.

Participants are warmly invited to contribute posters to the workshop. We hope that this will stimulate interesting discussions and new collaborations.

Sincerely,

The organizers:
Gennadiy Averkov
Giulia Codenotti
Ansgar Freyer
Frank Vallentin
Marc Christian Zimmermann


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[DMANET] DeepLearn 2025: regular registration July 18

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12th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
(with a special focus on Large Language Models, Foundation Models and Generative AI)

DeepLearn 2025

Porto – Maia, Portugal

July 21-25, 2025

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/

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Co-organized by:

University of Maia

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA
Luxembourg/London

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Regular registration: July 18, 2025

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SCOPE:

DeepLearn 2025 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova, Warsaw, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Guimarães, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luleå, Bournemouth, Bari, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Porto.

Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current frontier research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in a huge variety of environments: computer vision, neurosciences, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedicine and health informatics, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, business and finance, biotechnology, physics experiments, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, geographic information systems, signal processing, genomics, materials design, video technology, social systems, earth and sustainability, etc. etc.

The field is also raising a number of relevant questions about robustness of the algorithms, explainability, transparency, interpretability, as well as important ethical concerns at the frontier of current knowledge that deserve careful multidisciplinary discussion.

Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 18 four-hour and a half courses, 2 keynote lectures, 1 round table and a hackathon competition among participants. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely.

DeepLearn 2025 will place special emphasis on large language models, foundation models and generative artificial intelligence.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students, postgraduate students and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, so people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well.

Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses.

Overall, DeepLearn 2025 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.

VENUE:

DeepLearn 2025 will take place in Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, recognized by UNESCO in 1996 as a World Heritage Site. The venue will be:

University of Maia
Avenida Carlos de Oliveira Campos - Castêlo da Maia
4475-690 Maia
Porto, Portugal

https://www.umaia.pt/en

STRUCTURE:

3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.

All lectures will be videorecorded. Participants will be able to watch them again for 45 days after the event.

An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Also companies will be able to present their technical developments for 10 minutes.

The school will include a hackathon, where participants will be able to work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges.

Full live online participation will be possible. The organizers highlight, however, the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Yonina Eldar (Weizmann institute of Science), Model Based Deep Learning: Applications to Imaging and Communications

Manuela Veloso (JPMorganChase), The Journey of Humans and AI: Insights from AI in Robotics and AI in Finance

PROFESSORS AND COURSES:

Pierre Baldi (University of California Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] From Deep Learning and Transformers to AI Risks and Safety

Sean Benson (Amsterdam University Medical Center), [intermediate] Digital Twins and Generative AI for Personalised Medicine

Xavier Bresson (National University of Singapore), [intermediate/advanced] Graph Transformers, Graph Generative Models and Large Language Models

Nello Cristianini (University of Bath), [introductory] Toward Ever More Clever Machines: The Evolution and Future of AI

Mark Derdzinski (Dexcom), [introductory] From Prototype to Production: Evaluation Strategies for Agentic Applications

Samira Ebrahimi Kahou (University of Calgary), [intermediate/advanced] Explainability in Machine Learning

Elena Giusarma (Michigan Technological University), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning at the Frontier of Astrophysics: Simulating the Universe

Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington), [intermediate/advanced] Real-Time Artificial Intelligence for Science and Engineering

Xia "Ben" Hu (Rice University), [introductory/advanced] Efficient LLM Serving: Algorithms and Systems

Lu Jiang (ByteDance & Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory/intermediate] Transformers for Image and Video Generation: Fundamentals, Design, and Innovations

Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer (University of Colorado), [introductory/intermediate] Multimodal AI for Healthcare

Yingbin Liang (Ohio State University), [intermediate/advanced] Theory on Training Dynamics of Transformers

Chen Change Loy (Nanyang Technological University), [intermediate/advanced] Harnessing Prior for Content Enhancement and Creation

Fenglong Ma (Pennsylvania State University) & Cao (Danica) Xiao (GE HealthCare), [introductory/intermediate] Transforming Healthcare and Drug Development through Multimodal AI with LLMs and Generative AI Technologies

Evan Shelhamer (DeepMind), [intermediate] Test-Time Adaptation for Updating on New and Different Data

Atlas Wang (University of Texas Austin), [intermediate] Low Rank Strikes Back in the Era of Large Language Models

Xiang Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), [advanced] Large Language Models for User Behavior Modeling: Cross-Modal Interpretation, Preference Optimization, and Agentic Simulation

Rex Ying (Yale University), [intermediate/advanced] Multimodal Foundation Models for Graph-Structured Data: Framework and Scientific Applications

OPEN SESSION:

An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary oral presentations of work in progress by participants.

They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by July 13, 2025.

INDUSTRIAL SESSION:

A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry.

Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event.

Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 13, 2025.

HACKATHON:

A hackathon will take place, where participants can work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. They will be coordinated by Professor Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama). The challenges will be released 2 weeks before the beginning of the school. A jury will judge the submissions and the winners of each challenge will be announced by August 25, 2025. The winning teams will receive a modest monetary prize and the runners-up will get a certificate.

SPONSORS:

Companies/institutions/organizations willing to be sponsors of the event can download the sponsorship leaflet from

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/sponsors/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Samuel Anjos (Maia, social networks)
Sergei V. Gleyzer (Tuscaloosa, hackathon chair)
José Paulo Marques dos Santos (Maia, local chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Santiago Montes (Tarragona, webpage)
Sara Morales (Luxembourg)
José Luís Reis (Maia)
Luís Paulo Reis (Porto)
David Silva (London, organization chair)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/registration/

The selection of 6 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For logistical reasons, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.

FEES:

Fees comprise access to all program activities and lunches.

There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.

The fees for on site and for online participation are the same.

ACCOMMODATION:

Accommodation suggestions are available at

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/accommodation/

CERTIFICATE:

A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of academic activities. This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

david@irdta.eu

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Universidade da Maia

Universidade do Porto

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Luxembourg/London
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